aws-s3-integrity-check: an open-source bash tool to verify the integrity of a dataset stored on Amazon S3

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a widely used platform for storing large biomedical datasets. Unintended data alterations can occur during data writing and transmission, altering the original content and generating unexpected results. However, no open-source and easy-to-use tool exists to verify end-to-end data integrity. Here, we present aws-s3-integrity-check, a user-friendly, lightweight, and reliable bash tool to verify the integrity of a dataset stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. Using this tool, we only needed ∼114 min to verify the integrity of 1,045 records ranging between 5 bytes and 10 gigabytes and occupying ∼935 gigabytes of the Amazon S3 cloud. Our aws-s3-integrity-check tool also provides file-by-file on-screen and log-file-based information about the status of each integrity check. To our knowledge, this tool is the only open-source one that allows verifying the integrity of a dataset uploaded to the Amazon S3 Storage quickly, reliably, and efficiently. The tool is freely available for download and use at https://github.com/SoniaRuiz/aws-s3-integrity-check and https://hub.docker.com/r/soniaruiz/aws-s3-integrity-check.